Notes for July 2009

Number of items in this month's catalogue: 9

You'll see several releases this month on the Arcana label. This French baroque specialty company, run by Michel Bernstein, left U.S. distribution around 1999, so everything we offer has never been available in the U.S. before. Bernstein died in 2007 and it's unclear whether Arcana will produce any new recordings. The last of their acclaimed Haydn string quartet cycle with the Festetics Quartet is part of this first release from their new American distributor (it's not unusual repertoire so we're not offering it but if you see this and want the disc, just let us know). It's more likely that, like Lyrita, this will be an opportunity only to access the ten years or so of their catalogue not available in the U.S. Even so, it's a great one. We'll attempt to offer every Arcana release, as they become available, since 1999.